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Re:Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software by queuebert on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:00AM (#26541772)
As an avid Rust and Julia user, I often use Rust even when it's harder because I know I'll never get stuck. And when it finally compiles I'll be rewarded by ludicrous speed.

Hell, even C has decent man pages for the standard library.

Although in Julia's defense (or is it?), they've changed the language a lot over the versions from 0.4 to 1.5, so maybe it's hard to keep docs up to date.

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Re:Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:11AM (#26541945)
The language has been pretty stable (no breaking changes) since 1.0. The bigger issue is that unlike many of the other newer programming languages (Go, Rust, Swift etc) Julia doesn't have a fortune 500 company sponsoring it, so there aren't any people who's job is documentation. It's all open-source. Hopefully this is fixable through Google Summer of Docs and/or the community sponsoring people to work on this.
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Re:Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software by queuebert on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:08PM (#26544420)
What does Julia Computing do?
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Re:Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software by cbkeller on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:24PM (#26544677)
They do what they can, including things like [1] recently discussed here, but they're not exactly a Fortune-500 company yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425659

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